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James Ivory, who at 89 is now the oldest person to receive an Oscar, took home his statue for his beautiful adaptation of Call Me By Your Name, giving that film its due.
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In Todd Haynes» unspeakably beautiful adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's semi-autobiographical novel about a 1950s Manhattan shopgirl (Rooney Mara) who is thunderstruck by a mutual infatuation with a well - to - do housewife (Cate Blanchett), the film illustrates — among other things — how falling in love is an act of looking, while being in love is an act of seeing.
The River — Jean Renoir's beautiful adaptation of a Rumer Godden (Black Narcissus) novel (she wrote the screenplay as well) about a British colonial family in India is lushly romantic while managing to, for the most part, avoid the pitfalls of imperialism that drag down The Darjeeling Limited.
Veteran Danish filmmaker Thomas Vinterberg (Festen, The Hunt) returns to a smaller homegrown story after last year's beautiful adaptation of Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd.
Not exact matches
This was a beautiful movie, Baz Lurmann's stunning and hyperdelic adaptation of this classic Shakespeare play made even better by the beautiful Leonardo Dicaprio, he was the perfect Romeo.
I think this beautiful adaptation gets no justice, the melodic storytelling and dramatic performances don't seem out of place in this tragic film, it keeps to the Shakespearean roots by maintaining the language which in its form sounds poetic, the story has however been updated to suit
I think this beautiful adaptation gets no justice, the melodic storytelling and dramatic performances don't seem out of place in this tragic film, it keeps to the Shakespearean roots by maintaining the language which in its form sounds poetic, the story has however been updated to suit today's audience.
«Annihilation,» starring Natalie Portman, is a hypnotically beautiful and unsettling adaptation of the first novel in Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach trilogy.
We visit the set of the supernatural drama, «Beautiful Creatures,» to preview this stylish adaptation of the best - selling first novel in the «Beautiful» series.
It seems like every day we are getting more and more beautiful news regarding the live - action Disney adaptation of Beauty and The Beast.
Now, as Garcia pointed out, she's biased about that Star Wars project because it features Alden Ehrenreich, who starred in the film adaptation of her book, Beautiful Creatures.
Beautiful but sanitised adaptation of a heartbreaking story
March 7, 2018 • Director Ava DuVernay's adaptation of the classic novel is devoid of cynicism, full of beautiful images and deeply moving.
And that really began with reading The Price of Salt, Patricia Highsmith's beautiful novel, and the gorgeous adaptation of Phyllis's script that first came to me with Cate attached.
And then, there were a decent number of auteurs who appeared at the Cannes Market who should (hopefully) pop up in Venice, such as Lido regular Benoit Jacquot with his adaptation of Don DeLillo's The Body Artist, apparently retitled Never Ever, while Wim Wenders could be a contender with The Beautiful Days of Aranjuez (though he may hold out for Berlin 2017, the same guess we'd wage for a new film from Volker Schlondorff, Return to Montauk).
The movie adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber's billion - dollar stage play follows a mysterious ghostly form (Gerald Butler) that haunts a Paris opera house and secretly mentors a beautiful young soprano (Emmy Rossum).
• The Man From U.N.C.L.E. - This franchise hopeful adaptation of the spy TV series was a pleasant summer surprise featuring Guy Ritchie's best work in ages, heaps of style, and a disgustingly beautiful cast.
The movie's unexpectedly goofy sense of humor helps to keep things light, and the actors do a good job with the material they've been given, but «Beautiful Creatures» doesn't feel like it was made by a studio that loved the books, but rather the idea of success that a film adaptation might bring — all business and no soul.
Melancholy yet beautiful, it's just what one would expect from the mind that created Adaptation, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Being John Malkovich.
Beautiful but sanitised adaptation of a heartbreaking story The Theory of Everything.
by Walter Chaw A very small story set on a very large stage, Phillip Noyce's affecting Rabbit - Proof Fence is perhaps the most visually beautiful film of the director's career, proving between this and his other movie from this year, the Graham Greene adaptation The Quiet American, that not only is it possible to go home again (as in Noyce to Australia) but also that it's often wise.
Noel's Take: When Stanley Kubrick's adaptation of Stephen King's The Shining was released in 1980, it baffled many film buffs, who couldn't figure out why the man who'd made some of the most challenging, brainy, and beautiful movies of the previous 20 years would spend his precious time and talent on a hammy, heavy B - horror flick.
On the fortress wall there are signs declaring this adaptation of the Patricia Highsmith novel «The Price of Salt» an important love story, a shattering and beautiful experience, featuring Oscar - worthy performances from Blanchett and Rooney Mara, etc..
His Mr. Parcher reminds a good deal of the evil doctors in William Burroughs's Naked Lunch; between this character and James Horner's score (a rip - off of Howard Shore's work with David Cronenberg), A Beautiful Mind invites undeserved comparisons to Cronenberg's The Fly and his adaptation of Naked Lunch: reclusive genius finds love even as he disintegrates into the madness of his ambition.
While many are saying YA novels are failures — past failures this year include adaptations of «Beautiful Creatures» and «The Mortal Instruments» (which is getting a sequel anyway)-- «The Hunger Games» is a financial juggernaut.
Among the contenders are Ethan (Alden Ehrenreich) and Lena (Alice Englert) of Beautiful Creatures, Richard LaGravenese «s adaptation of Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl «s bestselling novel.
After the break, Jennifer Beals produces and stars in a jazz - themed indie called The Lord of Vinyl, and the supernatural YA adaptation Beautiful Creatures gets a little addition from Project X. Read More»
Deservedly winner of the Best Director gong at this year's Cannes Film Festival, Nicholas Winding Refn makes Los Angeles look as beautiful as it's ever been without using any tourist traps, and the adaptation from the James Sallis novel by Hossein Amini (who also adapted the dark Jude and The Wings of a Dove) is beautifully done, even if some of the music (largely an effective ambient / electro score) is a little on - the - nose.
«In The Bedroom» and «Little Children» helmer Todd Field is involved, presumably as a writer / director, though we hope he shoots his adaptation of Jess Walter «s brilliant novel «Beautiful Ruins,» set to star Imogen Poots, first.
Jeremy Irons (Die Hard With A Vengeance, «The Borgias») has been announced to star in the upcoming adaptation of Beautiful Creatures,...
March 9, 2018 • Director Ava DuVernay's adaptation of the classic Madeleine L'Engle novel is devoid of cynicism, filled with beautiful images and deeply moving.
Overall this all seems like a major marketing push for a film which could grab a fair sized audience, but let's not forget the box - office disappointments of BEAUTIFUL CREATURES and THE MORTAL INSTRUMENTS: CITY OF BONES, showing that popular female - centric Young Adult adaptations don't always rake in big cinematic crowdof BEAUTIFUL CREATURES and THE MORTAL INSTRUMENTS: CITY OF BONES, showing that popular female - centric Young Adult adaptations don't always rake in big cinematic crowdOF BONES, showing that popular female - centric Young Adult adaptations don't always rake in big cinematic crowds.
While I firmly believe Where the Wild Things Are (non-Kaufman script) is one of the most beautiful adaptations in years, I'm not sure you can convince movie buffs and members of the Academy that the screenplay is as sharp and memorable as Jonze's Adaptation or Being John Malkovich.
In Ustinov's film adaptation of Herman Melville's story of the beautiful, childlike sailor Billy Budd (Terence Stamp), Ryan is the sadistic ship's officer Claggart, who relentlessly persecutes the boy and triggers a tragedy.
With the first full trailer set to arrive soon, Amazon Studios have released a teaser for the upcoming adaptation of David and Nic Sheff's memoirs, Beautiful Boy, which stars Steve Carell and Timothee Chalamet; take a look below... Based on the memoir «Beautiful Boy» by David Sheff and «Tweak» by his son, Nic Sheff, Beautiful Boy -LSB-...]
MNPP puckers up for Tom Sturridge - On the Road is now on DVD and Olivier Assayas Sils Maria is next Empire Beautiful cast lining up for the adaptation of the best - seller Dark Places, a drama about a woman who survived a Satanic massacre, with Charlize Theron headlining and Nicholas Hoult, Corey Stoll and Christina Hendricks supporting i09 has a Fall Movie Guide for 20 upcoming genre films.
It was an adaptation of a Paul Bowles story, shot partly behind the scenes on the set of Oliver Laxe's Mimosas (Grade: B --RRB-, the film that I ended up catching after The Beautiful Days At Aranjuez.
First up, a press release from Alcon Entertainment reveals that they've found the leads for their hopeful «Twilight» competition, «Beautiful Creatures,» an adaptation of the novels by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl, which is being written and directed by Richard LaGravanese («P.S. I Love You «-RRB-.
Sofia Coppola's latest meditation on privileged femininity is an adaptation of Thomas Cullinan's novel of the same title, and it's a beautiful idea of a terrible time, stirringly acted and flawlessly shot.
The young adult craze («Twilight,» «The Hunger Games») has recently crashed («Beautiful Creatures,» «Vampire Academy,» «The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones»), and the media has decided that the fate of future young adult film adaptations will live and die on the box office returns of «Divergent.»
Sebastian Lelio's sensitive, multifaceted adaptation of Naomi Alderman's novel is a beautiful exploration of the restrictive nature of traditional communities, anchored by a trio of -LSB-...] The...... Read more «New from Clint Worthington and Alcohollywood: Disobedience Review: A Mesmerizing Tale of Religion and Forbidden Love»
Director Luca Guadagnino's adaptation of André Aciman's novel of a teen's memorable first romance is as languid and as steamy as the Italian summer in which it's set — and as beautiful as its breakout star, Timothée Chalamet.
It's silly, it's beautiful, it's a fun exercise in adaptation of literary classics, and it's only slightly weighed down by Martin Henderson's woodenness.
The movie's unexpectedly goofy sense of humor helps to keep things light, but «Beautiful Creatures» doesn't feel like it was made by a studio that loved the books, but rather the idea of success that a film adaptation might bring — all business and no soul.
A famous filmmaker returns to Hollywood after a long absence and seduces a beautiful woman, and 20 years later his son follows in his footsteps in this contemporary adaptation of the Leo Tolstoy short story «Two Hussars.»
Having already established himself as a novelist with the cult classic «The Beach» and as a screenwriter by penning the likes of «28 Days Later,» «Sunshine» and adaptations of «Never Let Me Go» and «Dredd,» Alex Garland made his directorial debut with 2015's «Ex Machina,» a story set in the not - too - distant future about a programmer (Domnhall Gleeson) sent by his technological genius boss (Oscar Isaac) to administer the Turing test to a new and advanced form of artificial intelligence, a beautiful humanoid robot (Alicia Vikander).
Danish director Thomas Vinterberg's genteel adaptation of Thomas Hardy's classic 19th century novel is beautiful to look at — filmed in bucolic Dorset, Somerset and Oxfordshire by cinematographer Charlotte Bruus Christensen.
That excitement subsided considerably upon the realisation that wasn't for the upcoming Disney adaptation, nor the Universal / Working Title version, but rather a reimagining of the classic Hans Christian Andersen tale which follows a reporter and his niece who discover a beautiful and enchanting creature the believe to be the real little mermaid.
Far from the beautiful sincerity of Lewis» prior screen adaptation, director Bennett Miller's Moneyball (2011), The Big Short revels in its rambunctious spirit, a more distant relative than close cousin.
Killer Women, an adaptation of the Argentine series Mujeres Asesinas, follows the only woman in the Texas Rangers, a ballsy, beautiful badass who knows how to get to the truth and isn't afraid to ruffle a few feathers on her way there.